Why have Arab-Israeli workers been hit hardest by COVID-19?

Why have Arab-Israeli workers been hit hardest by COVID-19?

"The weakness of the Arab sector in the labor market is reflected in the high concentration of Arabs employed in economic sectors characterized by low wages, including construction, agriculture."

Girls walk on the outskirts of the Bedouin city of Rahat, southern Israel (photo credit: REUTERS/AMIR COHEN)

The economic fallout from the coronavirus outbreak has left no sector of Israeli society untouched. Even now that most restrictions to combat the pandemic have been lifted, hundreds of thousands of Israelis remain out of work.One sector that has been hit especially hard by the outbreak has been Israel’s Arab working population, a new […]

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